[nabs-l] VR Stream pros and cons

[Jess]

Ashley,
>From following this thread. Yes the Humanware Companion Software does come 
with the VR Stream. Because from my understanding it transfers the files 
between the VR Stream and the computer.
Jessica
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] VR Stream pros and cons


> Chelse,
> Thanks for this information.  Good to know about the download process.  I 
> do have web braille.
> Does Human ware stream come with the VR stream unit?  What does it do?
>
> Ashley
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chelsea Cook" <astrochem119 at gmail.com>
> To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] VR Stream pros and cons
>
>
>> Ashley,
>>
>>  I love my Stream! At first I was reluctant to get one, but then I found 
>> out what it can do.  I use it all the time for reading books from NLS and 
>> RFBD.  It is easy to get authorization keys from these places.  If you 
>> have a Web Braille account or are affiliated with your library, you 
>> should be able to complete an application for the new download site. 
>> With RFBD, go to your My Account on the online version and select 
>> "Authorize New Player." Then you just type in the serial number.  I don't 
>> use it for recording as much now, but that may change.
>>  There is a program that comes with it called HumanWare Stream Companion. 
>> This makes your talking books from NLS easy to transfer.  RFBD is more 
>> tedious, but I'm trying to see if there's an easier way to do it.  You 
>> can create bookmarks and transfer notes (recordings), to your computer 
>> with this program.  I've never tried playlists, but I love the Random 
>> music feature, similar to the concept of the IPod shuffle.  You can't 
>> navigate by song title and artist, per se, but if you know how your music 
>> structure is laid out, you can find a specific song by knowing its file 
>> and folder coordinates.  The Stream will accept those.  The only other 
>> problem I face sometimes is with the NLS books, you can't do page 
>> navigation.  It doesn't support Word documents yet.  Only t x t, b r f, 
>> and Html.  You can do word searches in these documents, and it makes it 
>> easier if you know how to text because it uses those same conventions for 
>> numbers.  I haven't had the practice yet.
>>  Overall: If you're in college and use NLS and RFBD for most of your 
>> reading, it's an excellent, all-in-one device.  You can put up to a 16 
>> gig HC SD.  card in it (I hear it has issues with anything higher), as 
>> well as USB flash drives.
>> Hope this helps,
>> Chelsea
>> "I ask you to look both ways.  For the road to a knowledge of the stars 
>> leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been 
>> reached through the stars."
>> Sir Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist (1882-1944), Stars and Atoms 
>> (1928), Lecture 1
>>
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